Soon after Litecoin halving, the hash rate and the difficulty of mining “digital silver” fell by almost a third. According to BTC.com, network complexity has decreased by 28% since halving. This situation may be related to the cessation of the operation of part of the mining equipment, which became unprofitable after halving the award. Over the same period, the LTC hashrate fell to May marks: According to F2pool, […]
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RoboForex lead analyst Dmitry Gurkovsky talks about further possible scenarios of the price movement of bitcoin and several popular altcoins. The leading digital asset continues to trade above the support level of $ 9,100 – buyers manage to maintain an advantage. To confirm the upward movement, it is important to see the breakdown of the upper boundary of the Triangle model and consolidation above $ 12,385. In this case, the levels are $ 15,000 and $ 16 […]
Bitcoin Core developer Peter Velle introduced Miniscript, a new programming language to simplify the development of smart contracts for the Bitcoin network. After publishing the corresponding message in the newsletter for Bitcoin developers, Peter Velle noted that the work on Miniscript lasted almost a year, and Andrew Poelstra and Sanket Sanyalkar also participated in it. Just announced our Miniscript project website on the bitcoin-dev […]
The "Godfather" of the cipher bank movement and the creator of the first eCash digital monetary system, Dr. David Chaum announced on Tuesday, August 20, the launch of a new cryptocurrency based on the Praxxis blockchain resistant to quantum computing. “I am extremely pleased to present a new amazing project that I have been working on in secret,” David Chaum wrote on Twitter. I am extremely pleased […]
Investors in the Telegram Open Network (TON) ICO campaign get rid of project tokens by selling them on the secondary market. According to CoinDesk, there are several over-the-counter platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and at least one investment fund among the sellers. The price for one Gram token in the secondary market ranges between $ 1.60 and $ 2. The benefit for sellers is obvious, given that during the first […]
Representatives of the gambling industry, in particular casino operators, should more carefully follow the recommendations of the Financial Crime Prevention Network (FinCEN) regarding activities related to virtual currencies and report all cases of suspicious activity. The corresponding reminder of the Director of FinCEN Kenneth Blanco made during the 12th annual conference on combating money laundering this week […]
The Ethereum development team approved the final details of the upcoming Istanbul hard fork, naming, in particular, six code changes that will be activated on the network of this second cryptocurrency capitalization. This is written by CoinDesk. At previous meetings, the developers agreed that Istanbul will be activated in two stages. The first one will include all six changes (EIPs) and, […]
The Egyptian government is discussing plans to issue a national digital currency from a central bank. As an anonymous source in the central bank told Al-monitor, the initiative of the authorities is explained by the unwillingness to miss opportunities and positions in the financial sector. In addition, the Egyptian government hopes that issuing its own digital currency will increase the coverage of the population with financial services: now only 10% of residents have bank cards or […]
The Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT) through an open tender is looking for a contractor to create a technological platform for distributed registries (databases). According to the Russian government procurement website, the initial contract price is 56.9 million rubles. The application states that within 60 days from the date of conclusion of the state contract, the contractor will have to develop a blockchain solution for the automation of electronic services of the Moscow City Hall. In particular, the speech […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a Security Council resolution on the refusal to allocate 3.4-3.8 GHz frequencies necessary for operators to develop 5G in the country. Vedomosti writes about this with reference to sources familiar with the situation. According to experts, the range of 3.4-3.8 GHz is the most popular for 5G in the world, since in most countries it is the lowest of the free bands, in […]